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Article: U.S: Soil Samples Link Sudan Factory to VX Manufacturing
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 25, 1998
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U.S. intelligence said Tuesday that soil samples from the area of
a Sudan pharmaceutical factory, hit by cruise missiles last week by
the U.S. force, showed traces of an ingredient for making deadly VX
gas.
"It is a substance that has no commercial applications. It
doesn't occur naturally in the environment. It's not a byproduct of
any other chemical process. The only thing you can use it for, that
we know of, is to make VX," a senior U.S. intelligence official said.
He said the chemical found in the soil samples was EMPTA, or
o-ethylmethylphosphonothioic acid.
The soil samples were taken clandestinely in the last few months,
the senior official said. He declined to say who took them but ...